The Economist

The Economist

[:eu]Cultural evolution and the mutilation of women[:]

The consequences of FGM for a woman’s reproductive output
The Economist

[:eu]Searching for particles on a benchtop[:]

The beams of protons that circulate around the 27km-circumference ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest particle accelerator, carry as much kinetic energy as an American aircraft-carrier […]
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[:eu]Two strange mammals illuminate the process of natural selection[:]

What distantly related pandas reveal about genetics
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[:eu]A cardboard centrifuge separates blood cells from plasma[:]

TAKE a cardboard disc and punch two holes in it, close to, and on either side of, its centre. Thread a piece of string through each hole. Now, pull on […]
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[:eu]A particle accelerator in the Middle East[:]

A new synchrotron is about to start up in a surprising part of the world
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[:eu]Misleading maps and problematic projections[:]

Most schools teach a heavily distorted view of what the world looks like
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[:eu]Stardust memories Finding micrometeorites in city gutters[:]

A group of researchers have identified about 500 micrometeorites from an unlikely source: gutter sediment from the roofs of buildings in two of Europe’s capital cities.
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[:eu]An atlas of where proteins are found in cells[:]

Knowing a protein’s whereabouts within a cell will help researchers to determine its job
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[:es]How to take pictures of exoplanets[:]

Finding exoplanets has become routine. The next step is to try to photograph them